Category: purchasing

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Requisition ID: 71652
 
Join the Global Community of Scotiabankers to help customers become better off.
 
Purpose
 
The Senior Sourcing Manager is responsible for leading Bank-wide sourcing and project activities while working closely with senior business unit leadership and other sourcing leaders. The Senior Sourcing Manager will have the opportunity to improve upon current processes with a goal of centralizing and consolidating company-wide supplier selection. By contributing to a competitive marketplace environment the Senior Sourcing Manager will consistently drives reductions in the total cost of goods and services procured.

Accountabilities
 
Develop relationships with business leaders to support enterprise objectives, influence key stakeholders and lead sourcing strategies while collaborating on sourcing initiatives and projects
Collaborate with Business Unit and Operations leaders to fully understand key business drivers, spend drivers, and achieve required support levels
Lead business value through the development of high quality and cost effective supply relationships, while pursuing and championing total cost of ownership (TCO) savings directly by savings captured through leveraging Bank-wide purchasing volume, strategic supplier relationships, demand management or indirect savings realized by driving innovation and or enhancing the overall effectiveness of the supply management process
Directly lead and implement best practices in sourcing initiatives

Manage category within and across the Bank’s business segments, and serve as a key contributor to a well-developed and evolving supplier management process
Track sourcing initiatives for multi-functional stakeholder teams, ensuring effective strategy development, market assessments, RFP processes, and supplier management while enabling collaboration and innovation between stakeholders and suppliers
Establish and develop on-going strategic relationships with key suppliers during major sourcing/project initiatives
Contribute to a disciplined effort to influence spend and drive cost savings across all business segments
Support consistent application of procurement processes across constituent groups
Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge
Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions
Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct
Champions a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates team members by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team

Education/Experience

Bachelor’s degree in management, business, or related field; master (MA or MSc) in business or related field an asset
Minimum of 5-10 years progressive sourcing experience
CPM (Certified Purchasing Manager) asset
Global sourcing experience

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

As Canada’s International Bank, we are a diverse and global team. We speak more than 100 languages with backgrounds from more than 120 countries. Our employees are committed to a superior customer experience and use the Bank’s six guiding sales practice principles to ensure they act with honesty and integrity.

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